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Show Saturday, December 8, THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, Page A2 1990 Gas fireplaces may offer clean efficiency Q I want to install an attracg gas fireplace tive, to help heat my living room. Will the new ones provide much heat? Can I also install one in an old fireplace in my bedroom? F. W. A - There are new gas fireplaces available that can heat your living room, if not your entire house. With the high price of firewood today, a gas fireplace is a cheaper source of heat. The efficiency of these is as high as 75, probably higher than your central gas furnace. The new gas fireplaces have large, tight sealing glass doors and attractive trim. Other than the lack of the crackling sound, it is often difficult to distinguish the flames of modern gas logs from real logs. Although they operate most efficiently with the glass doors closed, you can burn them with the doors open. They are also much cleaner and safer to burn. Most new gas clean-burnin- James Dulley CUT YOUR UTILITY BILLS raging fire. Although it is easy to install a zero-clearan- don't necessarily a chimney with a gas fireplace. Some even have forced draft exhaust vents. The heating input rating for these gas fireplaces ranges from about 15,000 BtuH (Btu per hour) to 40,000 BtuH. You can manually adjust the heat output and blower speed depending on the heating needs on a given day. An optional wall thermostat allows you to control it just like your furance. Room air is drawn in vent openings in the bottom of the gas fireplace by a built-i- n blower. Then it circulates around the hot firebox and blows out upper vents into your room. Some have additional optional heat outlets so you can duct it to adjacent rooms or to your furnace duct system. . For the highest efficiency, you can purchase an optional outdoor combustion air inlet option. .This minimizes the amount of heated room air lost out the flue and provides better heat distribution throughout your house. Most have electronic ignition, so within a minute, you have a need Blower & speed yourself, be sure to get the proper permits and inspections. The $40 for the permit and inspections is money well spent. You probably will have to hire a plumber or experienced serviceman to hook up the gas line for you. gas Complete fireplace inserts are also available for old existing woodburning fireplaces. Another option is just installing modern gas logs. Although the heat output is significantly less, you may not have to make expensive chimney repairs as you would if you plan to burn wood. You can write to me for UTILITY BILLS UPDATE No. 166 showing a list of addresses and telephone numbers of manufacturers of the new gas fireplaces and detailed specifications on several of the most efficient ones. Please include $1.00 and a STAMPED BUSINESS-SIZE envelope. James Dulley, The Daily Herald, 6906 Roylgreen Dr., Cincinnati, Ohio, 45244 Q - I just bought an old electric range that I am going to put in my son's apartment. Is there anything that we can do to make it use the least amount of electricity? D. R. A - Electric ranges are very simple devices. Check to make sure that all of the burner (element) controls work properly and actually adjust from low to high. Also clean the chrome reflector drip pans or buy new ones. They are very inexpensive and can improve its efficiency. The only other spot to check is the gasket around the oven door. Your son may occasionally bake a frozen pizza and a leaky gasket wastes electricity. high-efficien- designs. This means that the firebox is insulated and protected so it can be installed directly against common building mateYou high-efficien- Flue gas controls 11, gas fireplace zero-clearan- Heated air outlet &0','' ';:'?' UtrmW n ft Gas logs Large, Electric blower inside g tight-fittin- glass Cool room air inlet doors New gas fireplaces are efficient and attractive CHALLENGER: (Continued from Page Al) wasn't known who was operating the Hawaii program. '"We're still trying to piece together who the players are." he said. Asked how the campsite was found. Farrell said. "The AG's office and local police had a lot of intelligence sources" but declined to say more. The participants apparently had been in the valley for a week to 10 days, and didn't appear to ha- -" any serious injuries, Farrell said. , .'.'They were reported to be extremely happy to see the police and Child Protective Services," Farrell said. ; Meanwhile, Stephen Cartisano, founder of the defunct Challenger program in Utah, says he is in " Mexico not to hide from Hawaii authorities but to save : Stephen Cartisano called The Salt Lake Tribune on Thursday to say he, is working near Guadalajara on a pilot youth program in conjurc- tion with a Catholic youth organiza-!tioSaint Guadalupe Del Fuego, s seeking to give poor Mexican "an alternative to drugs and teen-ager- come here to Mexico and 111 tell them what they can do with their lawsuit," Cartisano was quoted by The Tribune as saying. E!jc Dmh Herald (ISSN Second Ciass Postage Paid at Provo. Ulan U ! . has said his deoartment tried to locate Cartisano .nearly two months. , The state went 10 coun f I 1 .: Hnu-- eanes- - ta program, which it contended e licensing laws, vioiaf--e- ti child-welfar- school attendance laws, does not have a business license and was avoiJ;,,s state taxes. "Tell the (Hawaii officials) to Wilson asked leaving immediately on available commercial flights, Ms. Tutwiler said. "He urged the government of Iraq to dispense with exit visa and. passport formalities, so that people do not encounter needless bureaucratic delays," she said. . But Iraqi Foreign Ministry officials told him they will only respond to the U.S. requests on Saturday, she said. They gave no reason, she said, but other officials noted that Friday is Islam's sabbath and government offices are closed. Tutwiler said the State Department was arranging for Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz's visit, probably on Dec. 17. But a date for his meeting with Bush won't be set until Iraq sets the date for a subsequent meeting between Secretary of State James Baker and President Saddam Hussein in Baghdad, she said. She declined to explain why the administration was setting such a condition. The United States proposed flying all the Americans out on planes chartered from Iraqi Airlines or from other companies it has used before, she said. The main task of the diplomats in Kuwait, led by Ambassador Nathaniel Howeil, was to keep in touch with Americans and work for their safe release, Ms. Tutwiler said. Once that mission is accomplished, and all Americans who wish to leave Kuwait do so, "the embassy will temporarily not be staffed because we would then have no business to do with the Iraqi occupation forces." The diplomats will remain accredited to the Kuwaiti government exiled in Saudi Arabia. BUSH: (Continued from Page Al) onstrators, Bush's visit ignited sentitraditional anti-Americ- an ments. Army and National Guard units took over the Andean city of Meri-d- a to prevent further violence from student protestors and eight people were injured in clashes between students and police in Caracas late Thursday. Several police officers were reported injured, one seriously. Students also marched against the Bush visit in Maracaibo, Venezuela's second largest city and its oil center, and in Valencia. Toasting Perez at a state dinner, Bush saluted the tide of democracy and economic reforms that have swept South America, "leaving Cuba as the lonely totalitarian holdout in our hemisphere. "So we are close, very close, to a democratic hemisphere, from Alaska to Argentina," Bush said. "This era of peaceful change came about in no small part because of the unwavering leadership and example of a democratic Venezuela." In his toast, Perez said, "Our solidarity is firm" against Iraq. He said Venezuela supports the U.N. decisions and steps taken by the United States "to safeguard mankind from a catastrophic war" caused by Iraq's attempt to erase from the map "a universally recognized state." As he arrived in Caracas from an overnight stop in Chile, Bush expressed disappointment over the collapse of global trade negotiations in Brussels. Bush blamed the collapse on the failure of the European Community, Japan and Korea to reduce farm subsidies, and said he hoped they would reconsider and negotiate "real market-openin- g agreements while there is still time to do so." After Iraq invaded Kuwait, Perez joined with Saudi Arabia to lobby OPEC members to sustain production levels and stabilize prices, and BT10-1- 0" 42S-- 8" $ 8 25 S4S 50 $99 00 1 Month, carrier 6 Montns. carrie One Year carrr 62S S r er ca'r er 8 50 $51.00 $102 00 ditv outs oe of Utah County RATES IN UNITED STATES $ 1200 $72 00 $144 00 i Month 6 Months One Year HERALD TELEPHONE NUMBERS nvaTtiift PET. 33-505- EDITORIAL DEPT 373-505- BUSINESS OFFICE 373-505- CLASSIFIED DELIVERY SERVICE Copy-J- it Scipps Leasee Nespape-s- . Inc. nt in the economies developing world," a senior administration official said of the efforts of Venezuela and Saudi Arabia. The price of oil has fluctuated wildly since August, rising when Persian Gulf tensions increased and receding when peace prospects seemed to improve. Perez has called for talks among consumers and producers to see if a way can be found to stabilize prices. Officials said Venezuela advocates creation of a hemispheric oil reserve for emergencies, but that the United States has so far shown little interest in the idea. During his presidency, Bush has developed a warm relationship with Perez. The trip to Caracas marks the seventh time they have met. The two leaders were holding talks before a state dinner and they were to meet again Saturday before Bush returns to Washington. In a speech to businessmen in Santiago, Bush pledged that the events in Eastern Europe and elsewhere will not hamper U.S. relations with Latin America. "We are not going to neglect Central or South America," Bush said. "This is our hemisphere." Bush told a gathering of the Chilean-America- n Chamber of Commerce that with the restoration of democratic rule in Chile after 17 years of military government, "our two nations are united as never before." He also said that economic reforms in Chile have led to a surge in foreign investment here and "even better times lie ahead." ROCKY o Chef 1990 Force Maj. cer' dispenses holiday mail to troops at a Saudi Arabian air base Friday. Wally S.C., who Vaugh, Sumter, calls himself a 'morale offi Bangerter tells reservists gulf is learning experience - Gov. SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Norm Bangerter told soldiers actifor Opvated in the latest call-u- p eration Desert Shield that their mobilization would "be a good experience." Bangerter spoke to some 700 members of the 328th General Hospital unit as they prepared to leave the state sometime early next week for Colorado. After that, the Army says the group will go to Frankfurt, Germany, to replace military hospital personnel who have gone on to the Persian Gulf. "I have every confidence that this will be resolved in a favorable way," Bangerter said Friday. The group is the second Salt unit to be actiLake vated. The units members come from Utah, Idaho and Colorado and include enough medical personnel hos1,000-be- d to staff a pital. More than 1,800 Utahns have been called up to active duty and more than 1,000 of those are mediarea-medic- al full-servi- cal personnel belonging to the 328th, the Utah Army National Guard's 144th Evacuation Hospital or the Reserve's 321st Medical Air Ambulance Detachment. Bangerter said that even though comes near Christmas the call-u- p and will be an inconvenience for those left at home, he is confident that President Bush is handling the situation correctly. "In listening to the recent hearings in Washington, I think everyone has indicated the President is on the right track," he said. "The question seems to be whether we take Saddam out or wait." 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As for Americans who have been in hiding, "They can appear, and leave," Azi2 said. He said Iraq was still considering the State Department's proposal that Baker's visit to Baghdad should take place on Dec. 20, 21 or 22, or else Jan. 3. Aziz repeated Iraq's position that all Middle East problems must be L Trie Da ly He-ai- d P O Box 717 Provo UT M603-071- 7 MAIL for envoy Joseph POSTMASTER: Send change o address to' Rates may Fan-pl- l ' has Iraq's National Assembly approved the dearture of more than 8,000 foreigners from Iraq and Kuwait, 1949-198- n, 'crime." '143-06- PjDi'Shed Daily by SCRIPPS LEAGUE NEWSPAPERS. INC. 1 555 Not P'eedom Blvd P O Box 717 Provo Utai EW603-071- 7 KIRK PARKINSON. Publisher N LaVERL CHRISTENSEN. Eoitor'Ec tor Emeritus s. teen-Iger- S P S ID Friday, immediately after that Americans be allowed to start high-efficien- rials. 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